Daily Reading List – March 26, 2025 (#520)

Home after my last trip before Google Cloud Next. Which isn’t much time. But, plenty is going on around our industry, and it’s important to observe even while our own work demands our attention.

[blog] Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon. Sheesh, I thought we just “got” 2.0? Charity reframes the differences between “classIc” observability and the new style.

[article] How vibe coding will affect Engineering Managers. Very accurate looking list. What’s going to happen when engineering is no longer the bottleneck?

[blog] Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces. Forget all these snazzy AI benchmarks; can your model draw a pelican on a bicycle? If not, just get outta here.

[blog] Mastering Complex Workloads with Kubernetes JobSet and GKE metrics. I mentioned this new Kubernetes API a few days ago, and here’s an example of how to use it.

[paper] A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents. Here’s a research paper on issues with current approaches to storage (or “memory”) for AI agents, and a proposed solution.

[article] All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful. good points from Jason. Don’t over-invest in perfectly structured frameworks or models that claim to describe human behavior or the world around us. But, they can be useful input to other ideas.

[blog] Leveraging GCP Model Armor for Robust LLM and Agentic AI Security. I didn’t know much about this cloud service, now I do. Whoever you get this capability from, just get it from someone.

[article] How to Build Career Resilience in Uncertain Times. Strong advice. I still try to operate every day as if I’ll get fired. That motivates me to keep my skills sharp, network healthy, and finances in decent shape.

[paper] Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations. NIST shares this new paper on AI-driven attacks and how you might mitigate the threats.

[article] Cloud veterans launch ConfigHub to fix ‘configuration hell’. Friend of the blog (and former colleague) Brian Grant built a company with smart co-founders and is now shipping something that may solve a problem for you.

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